Leadership
Kelly A. Diggs-Andrews
Executive Chair
Ph.D. Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Lab Affiliation: Simon J. Fisher, MD PhD
Hometown: New Orleans, LA
Background: As an undergraduate at Alabama State University, Kelly researched IFN-gamma signaling and became a member of the Association of Women in Science and the Beta Kappa Chi National Scientific Honor Society. She is a recipient of Washington University’s Chancellor’s Diversity Graduate Fellowship, W. H. Danforth Scholarship, and a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award. Her dissertation focuses on understanding the role of neuronal insulin signaling in the hypoglycemic counterregulatory response.
Tamira Butler
Executive Co-chair
Ph.D. Program: Biochemistry
Lab Affiliation: MD PhD
Hometown: South Carolina
Background:
Natecia Williams
Historian, Treasurer
PhD program: Neuroscience
Lab Affiliation: Joseph, MD, PhD
Hometown: Gary, IN
Background: Tecia graduated from DePauw University in Indiana with a major in biochemistry and minor in psychology. While an undergraduate, she was a Science Research Fellow and Percy L. Julian scholar. During her last year of college, she did a research internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, which resulted in a second authorship on a publication, “Involvement of Phospholipase A2 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mediated PMN Trans-epithelial Migration.” Tecia was also a member of Circle K, International, the African American Association of Students, and Students Striving Against Cancer. She is a recipient of Washington University’s Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship and her dissertation studies transcriptional regulation of photoreceptors in the retina.